For the DTCertificateViewer component that I am presently working on I needed to have a list of all known OIDs. Those are the tags (Object Identifiers) that identify the meaning of information encoded in CER/DER/ASN.1 files.
For example OID 2.5.4.6 means “Country Name”. I was able to glean a few dozen such identifiers from looking at a variety of certificates, but I couldn’t find a complete – and localized – list of those names anywhere online. Also Apple has registered a boatload of their own OIDs like “1.2.840.113635.100.6.1.2” = “Apple Developer Certificate (Development)”.
Since I’m building this component for use on iOS and Mac it became clear that I needed to go straight to the horse’s mouth to get my strings. In this article I am going to explain how I got my list of OIDs, in all 30 languages that OS X is localized in.